Retry making rundirs a few times with randomised exponential backoff #3409
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… launching multiple workflows at once. it's unclear to me why its *so bad* in his situation, but the race condition exists none-the-less and this PR complicates rundir creation to accept that it might be run multiple times concurrently
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quentin has experienced a glaring race condition in make_rundirs when launching multiple workflows at once.
it's unclear to me why its so bad in his situation, but the race condition exists none-the-less and this PR complicates rundir creation to accept that it might be run multiple times concurrently
I'm a little unsure of what the right initial values for backoff constant should be ... using random.random() means it will extremely small values in some cases
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